For last Sunday’s newspaper, Alysia Santo and I teamed up for a story on heroin’s rising popularity as an alternative to Oxycontin and other prescription painkillers. Here’s a piece: It only took a couple months of use before heroin took the life of Jeremiah Lyman, a hulking 20-year-old who loved fishing and hunting. He’d started […]
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Today’s column is about Bruce Roter’s proposal for a Museum of Political Corruption in Albany. It sounds like a joke, I know, but Roter insists he’s serious. And you know what? I think he’s on to something. The museum would be an instant tourist attraction. Plus, the museum would also be our community’s way of […]
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Hank Morris, the supposed architect of the pay-for-play pension fund scheme that put former Comptroller Alan Hevesi and others in prison, has been granted parole and will be released by June 3. Morris, who received a 16- to 48-month sentence, was denied parole on three separate occasions. But earlier this month, Columbia County Supreme Court […]
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From my Sunday column: When a judge says the state is unjustly keeping someone in prison, it’s worth paying attention — even when the prisoner is Hank Morris. Remember Morris? He’s the architect of the pay-to-play pension fund scam that put former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi behind bars and placed both men on New York’s […]
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Thursday’s Advocate column — click here to read it — tells the experience of Bill Westwood, photo right, whose red Honda was vandalized late one night a year ago. After the crime, Westwood assembled an array of evidence that he thought would lead to an arrest. But that hasn’t happened. The case has gone cold. […]
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